Medical Office Management Certificate

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The demand for quality health care has increased the need for trained and experienced medical office professionals.* Medical office managers provide the administrative services required for the efficient and profitable operation of physicians’ offices, clinics, dental offices, medical labs, and other health care facilities. Kaplan Continuing Education’s (KCE) Medical Office Management Certificate is designed to provide you with the administrative knowledge necessary to pursue a career as a competent, confident, and successful medical office manager.

Quality medical care consists of proper medical treatment provided in an efficiently run medical office. Rapidly changing health care policies require that medical office managers have an astute knowledge of the myriad of state and federal health care regulations as well as medical insurance requirements. Additionally, medical office managers must be familiar with basic medical terminology, medical records management, basic billing practices, insurance coding, and financial management. Medical office managers work with health care providers and other health care personnel to ensure that patients receive their health care in a well-run medical practice.

The Medical Office Management Certificate may provide you with an opportunity to pursue a career in the dynamic health care industry and work with health care professionals.† Study to develop the skills that could help you find career success in the growing health care industry.

Imagine What You Can Do

  • Coordinate

  • Coordinate administrative office functions to ensure efficiency.
  • Oversee

  • Oversee the daily operations of a medical office.
  • Manage

  • Manage medical records, office finances, and information processing.
  • Analyze and Improve

  • Analyze medical office practices and implement improvements.
 

 

Imagine Where You Can Apply

Medical office managers may pursue career opportunities in physicians’ offices in solo and group practices, hospitals, clinics, labs, state and local health departments, chiropractic, veterinary, and dental offices, hospice centers, and medical research centers.

Is This Program Right For Me?

This program is designed for individuals who possess a high school diploma or GED and wish to pursue a career as an administrative leader in a medical office environment. Positions may include office manager, assistant office manager, or front office manager.

Students enrolling in the Medical Office Management Certificate program must demonstrate basic computer skills through successful completion of a challenge exam or submission of a transcript reflecting completion of a college-level computer course. Students unable to satisfy this requirement must complete the Medical Office Management Certificate program's Introduction to Computer Skills course. There will be no charge to the student for either the challenge exam or the Introduction to Computer Skills course.

Courses Include

  • Medical Language for the Medical Office Manager
  • Medical Office Management I
  • Understanding Health Insurance Principles
  • Introduction to Medical Coding
  • Fundamentals of Medical Office Bookkeeping and Accounting
  • Medical Office Management II

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Program Prerequisites

  • High School Diploma or GED

Program Length

  • 12 months

Tuition

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Program Comparison

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Take the First Step

In 12 months or less, you could be on your way to a more rewarding career. Take the first step by calling 866.542.4042 (Toll Free) or click here for more information.
*Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Career Guide to Industries, 2008–2009 Edition, Health Care, http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs035.htm (accessed February 2009).

Kaplan Continuing Education’s programs are designed to prepare graduates to pursue employment in their field of study, or in related fields. However, KCE does not guarantee that graduates will be placed in any particular job or employed at all.

Note: Kaplan Continuing Education (KCE) makes no representations or warranties as to whether our programs meet specific state and/or national regulatory/licensure requirements. It is the student’s responsibility to contact the appropriate regulatory agency for such information. Although certain KCE programs are designed to prepare students to take specific certification exams, KCE cannot guarantee that individual students will pass those exams.


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